Re: Paucity of Phonemes (was Re: Thagojian phonology...

Nik Taylor:
> Kristian Jensen wrote:
> > where; /t[/ and /d[/ are laminal denti-alveolar, /L/ is a lateral
> >        fricative, /3/ is a consonantal version of /@/ (schwa - or
> >        more specifically a raised and centralized close-mid back
> >        vowel).
>
> What?  How can /@/ be pronounced as a consonant?
Pace Tom Weir, It has been plausibly that English /r/ is the consonantal
version of /@/, at least for nonrhotic accents. This explains why in
nonrhotic accents, before a vowel /j/ and /w/ are inserted after high vowels
and /e/ and /o/ in accents with those, and /r/ is inserted after the
rest (linking/intrusive R). In Livagian too /r/ and /@/ can be argued to
be the same phoneme, since the allophonic range of /r/ is a subset of
the allophonic range of /@/.

--And.